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Lesley University
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Annual Goals

This report lists the annual improvement goals reported to ESE in the educator preparation program provider’s state annual report. Providers may report up to three goals for the upcoming year and are asked to report on progress made toward the prior year’s goals. Annual goals are reported in May of the academic year listed.

Annual Goals - 2016
Educator preparation program improvement goals for the upcoming program year
Goal #1 Goal: Graduate School of Education teacher and reading specialist candidates have done an Inquiry Project (IP) within their practicum for the past 20 years. The goal this year is to learn how an IP reinforces CAP regarding self-assessment, goal setting, reflection and evidence of PreK-12 student learning.
Goal #2 Goal: The intersection of retirements, new PSTs, CAP and Lesley's e-portfolio system, creates an opportunity to make the links between course preparation, early field experience and the practicum more cohesive and responsive to candidate and district needs. Another essential effort will be to strengthen recruitment, training, retention and recognition of supervising practitioners and program supervisors.
Goal #3 Goal: Use the Partnership, Employment and Placement information to develop a strategic plan with several organizing elements to focus on particular districts, license areas and program specific initiatives.

Annual Goals - 2015
Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year
Goal #1 Establish EDWIN Report protocols within Lesley for routine reports and analysis. Review parallel data with Deans, Division Directors, Program Directors and Program Advisors, Faculty, Enrollment Management, Career Resource Center and Assessment Team.
Goal #2 Align simultaneously educator initial and professional license program options with new MA ESE Professional Standards for Teachers and assess evidence of learning within a different e-portfolio system. Lesley's Unified Assessment System aggregates data for candidate, program, standard, and license levels.
Goal #3 Exploring a leadership partnership with another university with different strengths from Lesley to jointly inform additional strategies to both measure and strengthen program effectiveness.

Progress Toward Goals - 2015
Progress made toward prior program year goals
Goal #1 Several within Lesley are using the data from EDWIN reports for analyzing data, tracking where graduates are working and exploring the geographic relationship between where teacher candidates reside and do field work. This meant uploading data from many sources into the University database for integrative use. We are calling this unit of work: PEP or Partnerships, Employment and Placements.
Goal #2 Initial and Professional Teacher and Reading Specialist program options are aligned with new PSTs for a June 2016 launch at the graduate level and a September 2016 start at the baccalaureate level. Key assignments with field-based work were re-aligned within the e-portfolio system with PSTs and the 6 essential elements within CAP. Candidates post evidence of their learning and that of PreK-12 students against appropriate elements within those standards. The lift for the work ahead is compliance across all programs. Lesley's Unified Assessment System aggregates data for candidates, program options, standards, and license levels. The year ahead will also monitor where skills/ knowledge are introduced, practiced and demonstrated within each program option.
Goal #3 The potential partnership with another Institution of Higher Education did not happen. Lesley is working on several district partnerships to address anticipated staffing needs as well as targeted professional development.

Annual Goals - 2014
Educator preparation program improvement goals from the prior year
Goal #1 Enter enrolled, all done except practicum and completers in the required DESE Early ID System. DESE's goal is to simplify this task for greater efficiency.
Goal #2 Educator license completers across all 3 schools (CLAS, GSASS, and GSOE) with key assignments and evidence in the database will identify both strengths and needs for each program option. Add entry GPA for applicants to University database.
Goal #3 Consider how to standardize lesson and unit planning formats to scaffold the SEI requirements throughout the program of study.

Progress Toward Goals - 2014
Progress made toward prior program year goals
Goal #1 The labor intensive Early ID System continues as high-stakes data entry. The initial upload of educator licensure candidates with reported MEPIDs was completed; ongoing upload activity will continue as MEPIDs are submitted. MA ESE effort to make this operation less cumbersome and time consuming would benefit all sponsoring organizations required to use it.
Goal #2 Evidence of learning from key assignments demonstrated that Lesley?s candidates and completers met both MA ESE standards and TEAC requirements. Lesley?s educator/counselor preparation program approval was renewed through 2021 by MA ESE and accredited by TEAC (now CAEP) through 2021.
Goal #3 This is a work in progress informed by our candidates this past year who would benefit from an earlier program introduction for instructional strategies to meet the needs of English language learners.